ASEF Culture360 | Connecting Asia and Europe through arts and culture


Get in-depth perspectives through commissioned articles, interviews and reports on current topics for Asia-Europe cultural relations.


By Kerrine Goh

27 Jun 2024

CIMAM conference 2024 on Sustainable Futures | Interview with Suhanya Raffel

Suhanya Raffel Museum Director, M+

ASEF culture360 speaks with Director of M+ in Hong Kong and the President of CIMAM, Suhanya Raffel, to share about her journey and involvement with the museum community, the focus …

By Jenny Siung

14 Aug 2023

The role of cultural heritage within cities

Chester Beatty-Faiths in Focus

In 2017, the American Alliance of Museums looked into the future and projected how museums will operate in 2040 and predicted some will move from a static collection-based organisation to …

By Naima Morelli

05 Dec 2022

Women and the Earth: Interview with Pinaree Sanpitak

An interview with Pinaree Sanpitak, one of the most compelling and respected Thai artists of her generation.

By Valentina Riccardi

14 Nov 2022

CIMAM conference on "attentive" museums | Interview with Mami Kataoka

An interview with the President and Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Mami Kataoka.

By James Luigi Tana

21 Feb 2022

Off-site as Site of Access: Structuring Exhibitions Outside the Museum

The worldwide crises have changed the ways art institutions operate within their respective localities while maintaining relations globally. This article looks into the kind of interconnectedness that arises from an …

By Hugh Davies

08 Feb 2022

Digital Access to the New Museum

As flagship institutions in the global museum sector, the respective approaches of M+ Museum of Visual Culture in Hong Kong and Powerhouse Museum in Sydney give insights into best practice …

By Nicole Chang Shu Fun

31 Jan 2022

Re-interpreting the role of Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah | Malaysia

In addition to playing its role in preserving and showcasing cultural or natural heritage, museums play a crucial role in facilitating public education and cultural participation among visitors.

By Geuntae Park

16 Dec 2021

How we work together in China to create museums

As part of ASEF’s Call for Articles: Latest Trends in the Museum Sector in Asia and Europe, Geuntae Park explores this collaboration through three interviews with European professional: two with …

By Medea Santonocito

01 Dec 2021

Keeping Up With The Times: The Museo Egizio in Turin | Italy

As part of ASEF’s Call for Articles: Latest Trends in the Museum Sector in Asia and Europe, Medea Santonocito introduces the Museo Egizio in Turin to identify successful trends related …

By Madhura Dutta

19 Nov 2021

Community Museums: Revitalising Folk Cultures of Rural Bengal

This article features the research and writing of Madhura Dutta, as a part of ASEF's Call for articles: Latest Trends in the Museum Sector in Asia and Europe. Encompassing their …

Virtual Workings | Learning to Interweave New Curatorial Narratives

#ASEFCulture

Participants of the online residency Virtual Workings Tony Sugiarta (Indonesia), Masako Tanaka (Japan), Arie Syarifuddin (Indonesia) and Marinella Andrea Mina (Philippines) worked together on the topic of "Interweaving Textiles" under …

By Angela Youngman

22 Apr 2020

#art&technology: Visiting Popular Exhibitions and Museums

#art&technology: Visiting popular exhibitions and museums

In culture360.ASEF.org’s series of articles on #art&technology, Angela Youngman highlights the sustainability and overtourism problem linked to museums and how museums are experimenting with virtual reality to alleviate this problem.

By Duna Viezzoli

26 Mar 2020

#art&technology: Enter paintings, a dream come true

#art&technology: Enter paintings, a dream come true

In culture360.ASEF.org’s series of articles on #art&technology, virtual technologies are today applied to works of art, fascinating spectators on a new dimension and creating subjective perceptions of cultural heritage: the …

By Florent Petit

29 Nov 2018

Riga, at the heart of Latvian arts & culture

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In conjunction with the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Latvia, culture360 contributor Florent Petit takes us to Riga, to discover its vibrant arts scene.

By Naima Morelli

02 Jul 2018

Contemporary art museums in Rome | The system and the anti-system

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The wind of change which has invested the Italian contemporary art scene has started with museums. Naima Morelli we look at the main actors of this change and the challenges …